LP Executive Direct Hannah Kennedy reports through the LNC Public List that data cleanup is still under way. She urges reading the financial reports for a more accurate impression of how LP National Membership is doing. Good news!: When cleanup is done, we will have accurate membership numbers starting from when we began using CiviCRM. However, we do have indicative…
Posts published in December 2024
The concluding part of this document proposes actions that could have been taken in and for 2024. Further documents will follow. WHERE DO WE GO AFTER THAT? The structure of the LNC is fundamentally broken. No matter who is in charge, the same dysfunction and time-consuming parliamentary procedure plagues the party. Merely electing “better” people is pointless. Several reasons: Too…
Jake Porter sends us interesting information. First, Angela McArdle created a PAC, the Libertarian Unity PAC, mailing address 14900 Avery Ranch Road, Austin, TX. According to a document sent to Porter by @JuvenileBluster, one Austin Padgett formed the Swing Vote Strategist, LLC in Delaware. A person of the same name is widely understood to be LNC Chair Angela McArdle’s domestic…
On examination of the FEC filings for the Libertarian Party of California, as previously reported by Jake Porter based on work of former LNC Treasurer Todd Hagopian, we find that the LPCA failed to make mandatory FEC filings for the Third Quarter Report and for the post-General-Election filing. In addition, their end of June filing revealed $5619 cash on hand…
We continue with the Duque papers. These were prepared in 2023, so we have inserted in brackets (“[]”) a few edits to be consistent with the current date. SO WHO [could] WE TRUST ON THE LNC [in 2023]? Martin Cowen, an alternate who cannot vote, and Dustin Blankenship have been receptive to hashing out issues and willing to vote accordingly.…
LNC Chair Angela McArdle has asked the LNC to amend its procedure for acting on motions to suspend, i.e., to remove, LNC Officers and/or At-Large members. The motion reads: Motion: To strike out the current Section 1.01 4) text and insert the following: 4) Removal from Office A Party Officer or At-Large Member may be disciplined as per the Bylaws…
We continue to repost the documents on the LNC as released in 2023 by Miquel Duque and Anna Johnson Duque. SO WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW [That’s mid-2023]AND WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH ANGELA? Angela is consistently averse to dissent or even good-faith constructive criticism and has a pattern of shutting people out when they challenge her, a trait she shares with Michael…
Our attention has been drawn to the continuing actions of the Federal Election Commission with respect to campaign filings that various Libertarian-Party-connected persons or groups have or have not made. We will have considerably more detail on this in forthcoming articles. A typical FEC “Request For Additional Information”, this one directed to the Libertarian Unity PAC in the person of…
WHERE IS THE MISES CAUCUS IN ALL THIS? Michael Heise has been undermining Angela from the beginning, starting with insisting on backing Caryn Ann. In Angela’s words, “Mike said he didn’t care about board dysfunction in the first term.” After he got what he wanted, he then started lobbying with LNC members against her choice of executive director, and even…
The plaintiffs in the derivative suits of Beth Vest and Caryn Ann Harlos to remove Angela McArdle as Libertarian Party National Chair have separately filed the court asking that the two suits be merged for trial. Merger is a fairly routine step in this sort of situation. The LNC request that the Vest suit be dismissed has already been rejected…